About Ann
Ann Matus welcomes people seeking help with addictions, family conflicts, career challenges, ADHD, and major life transitions. She emphasizes a respectful, sensitive, and compassionate stance while tailoring conversations and treatment plans to each person’s particular needs.
Background and approach
Those looking for practical strategies and empathetic support will find a clinician focused on helping clients make concrete changes and build clearer paths forward. Licensed as an LCPC in Illinois, Ann brings three years of hands-on clinical experience to her work.
She draws on client-centered principles to create a collaborative, nonjudgmental space and uses cognitive behavioral techniques when targeted skill-building and cognitive restructuring are useful. Her practice addresses a wide range of concerns including communication and control issues, substance and process addictions, eating and food-related struggles, mood disorders, money and financial worries, life purpose, and smoking or vaping cessation.
Ann encourages clients to take the courageous first steps toward change and offers steady support and empowerment throughout the process.
Approaches for Online Change and Skill Building
Client-centered therapy emphasizes a collaborative, nonjudgmental relationship where the therapist listens and adjusts to the client's pace and priorities; this approach helps people feel understood and respected as they explore personal challenges. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and learning practical skills to change behaviors and emotional reactions, which can be especially helpful for addictions, mood concerns, and coping with life changes.Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process and will be determined together. The therapist works collaboratively with each person to match methods to goals, needs, and personal preferences so that sessions feel relevant and effective for the issues at hand.
Online formats available include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, offering flexibility for different schedules and comfort levels. These options make it easier to attend regular sessions, practice skills between meetings, and maintain continuity of care when in-person meetings are not possible. Licensed professionals can adapt client-centered and cognitive behavioral techniques effectively in remote formats to support progress and skill development.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
- Career difficulties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Smoking / vaping cessation
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English